Mosby’s Faculty Development Institute

MOSBY’S FACULTY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE

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Monday, January 5
7:00 a.m.	Main Conference Registration • Check-In Continental Breakfast • Posters • Exhibits
8:00	Future Trends in Nursing Education C. Fay Raines, PhD, RN M. Elaine Tagliareni, EdD, RN Leaders of two national nursing organizations, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the National League for Nursing (NLN), will explore current trends and innovations that are transforming nursing education. Discussion will focus on methods for addressing the challenges of shifting demographics, new technology, globalization, increasing cost consciousness, and the need for a more highly educated workforce.
9:00	Academic Incivility: What’s Happening to Our Students and Faculty? Linda J. Caputi, EdD, MSN, RN, CNE Have you noticed a change in the classroom over the last few decades? Academic incivility is any action that interferes with a harmonious and cooperative learning environment. This session will provide an overview of academic incivility that involves students and faculty, then present ways to deal with this growing concern in nursing education.
9:45	Refreshment Break • Posters • Exhibits
10:15	The Nightingale Virtual Lab: An Interactive Tool to Support Learners in Developing Essential Nursing Skills June Larson, MS, RN Describes a virtual skills lab that provides an interactive environment for developing student competency in nursing skills. This skills lab ensures quality skill development by all students and is particularly applicable to rural programs or programs with large class size.
11:00	Using Boyer’s Model of Scholarship to Enhance the Careers of Clinical Faculty, Those Seeking Tenure and Tenured Faculty Elizabeth C. Poster, PhD, RN, FAAN This session will focus on one of NLN’s standards of practice for nurse educators; “engaging in scholarship”. Using Boyer’s model and its 4 domains: Discovery, integration, application and teaching, the session will describe how faculty can document their work for dissemination, promotion and merit.
11:45	Questions and Discussion Faculty Panel
12:15 p.m.	Lunch Break

1:45	Strategies to Engage Learners Michelle Deck, MEd, BSN, RN, LCCE, FACCE Are you seeing signs of disinterest and “mental channel surfing” in your learner? This session will provide quick and easy ways to engage learners and refocus them PRN.
2:30	Bridging the Quality Chasm: Integrating Patient Safety into Nursing Curricula Mary Elizabeth (Beth) Mancini, PhD, RN, CNA, FAAN Describes innovative programs and strategies that are successfully integrating IOM patient safety competencies into the nursing curricula. The use of simulation as a pedagogy for teaching critical thinking, systems thinking, and patient safety concepts will be discussed and specific examples provided.
3:15	Refreshment Break • Posters • Exhibits
3:45	Feeling Stressed? There’s Help! Kathleen D. Pagana, PhD, RN For most of us in nursing, stress comes naturally. However, dealing with stress does not. We need to be proactive and take action to effectively handle stress. This fun, interactive, and lively program provides tools and techniques for managing stress and creating a balance between your personal and professional life.
4:30	Questions and Discussion Faculty Panel
5:00	Adjourn
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.	WELCOME WINE & CHEESE RECEPTION Exhibit Hall • Poster Presentations


Tuesday, January 6 * = Administrative ** = Advanced Topic
7:00 a.m.	CONCURRENT SESSIONS #1 Continental Breakfast • Posters • Exhibits
#11	Creating Safe Practitioners through EBP and Quality Improvement M. Elaine Tagliareni, EdD, RN Explores new definitions and approaches to teaching basic concepts of safety, collaboration and evidencebased practice which are essential in today’s prelicensure nursing programs. Participants will have an opportunity to consider ways to integrate curricular strategies into both fundamentals and senior level courses.
#12*	A Model of Improved Governance: Strengthening Participation, Streamlining Meetings and Maximizing Resources June Larson, MS, RN Ann B. Schlumberger, EdD, RN Provides nursing program administrators and nurse educators ideas for creating a positive faculty experience with ongoing program assessment and evaluation through program governance. Committee structure and faculty responsibilities will be shared.
#13**	Developing Virtual Worlds to Augment Classroom or Clinical Teaching (Part 1) Judy L. LeFlore, PhD, RNC, NNP, CPNP-PC, CPNP-AC “Virtual worlds” can be created in many ways using high-fidelity simulation, multi-user 3-D real-world environments, or hospital-based simulation in a portable video game setting. During this session we will outline the new technologies, define types of simulation and its uses.
#14	Presenting with Power & Pizzazz Kathleen D. Pagana, PhD, RN You will leave this fun and informative presentation knowing how to put power and pizzazz into your very next presentation. Highlights include tips for beginning, ending, transitioning, using stories, adding humor, and handling PowerPoint. You will be able to take your presentation up a notch by knowing how to handle questions and making nervousness work for you instead of against you.
#15	The Concepts Model of Learning: Teaching Students How to Think Douglas M. Turner, PhD, CRNA, CNE A concepts model of learning promotes better skills in performance across multiple domains of learning. Learn how to improve problem solving and reasoning skills in your students with this approach.
9:30	Refreshment Break • Posters • Exhibits
10:00	CONCURRENT SESSIONS #2
#21*	Creating Effective Teaching Partnerships: How to Leverage Existing Resources to Increase Enrollments and Graduation Rates Mary Elizabeth (Beth) Mancini, PhD, RN, CNA, FAAN Explores successful strategies to increase enrollment capacity and graduation rates in pre-licensure nursing programs. Mechanisms to leverage existing academic and clinical resources will be identified and methods for evaluating effectiveness described.
#22**	Developing Virtual Worlds to Augment Classroom or Clinical Teaching (Part 2) Judy L. LeFlore, PhD, RNC, NNP, CPNP-PC, CPNP-AC Describes how to implement a comprehensive simulation experience and facilitate learning by using debriefing techniques.
#23	Developing Your Career as a Nurse Educator Diane M. Billings, EdD, RN, FAAN In this session you will learn about career stages and transitions as well as ways to develop goals and strategies for career advancement. Learn to prepare a dossier for advancement through appointment and promotion. Examine the importance of networking, peer review, and how to choose a mentor to facilitate your career development.
#24	How to Improve Your Visual Presentations Michelle Deck, MEd, BSN, RN, LCCE, FACCE Do you want to improve your presentations with some new ideas? This session will focus on tips, tools and some basics of graphic design to take your visuals (powerpoint, charts, handouts) to a new level.
#25	Formalizing the Socialization Process: The Transition from Student to Nurse Douglas M. Turner, PhD, CRNA, CNE Describes the socialization process as a tool to promote successful transition from student nurse to competent practitioner. You will learn to identify attributes of well prepared nurses and develop strategies to help graduating students acclimate to the work setting.
11:30	Lunch Break
12:30 p.m.	Posters • Exhibits
1:00	CONCURRENT SESSIONS #3
#31	Implementing Electronic Assets and Assessments Across the Curriculum • Integrating Technology into Your Curriculum with Limited Financial Resources Maria Lauer, MSN, RN, APN-C, CNE Explores creative approaches to reduce the cost of integrating technology that enhances the teachinglearning experience. Includes “How to” demonstrations of: an inexpensive audience response system; nocost online resources; low cost PDA’s. • Using Electronic Case Studies to Enhance NCLEX Test Success Gloria Rose, PhD, RN Discusses how to incorporate online case studies as both a remediation tool and a bridge from theory to clinical practice. Describes how using online case studies throughout the curriculum can increase individual student success on the NCLEX-RN.
#32**	E-Learning: Teaching and Learning in an Online Classroom Diane M. Billings, EdD, RN, FAAN Describes how to use e-learning media such as Podcasts, videoclips, webquests, wikis, blogs, and social networking tools to promote active learning. Discusses how to use various e-learning media, with advantages and disadvantages, how to choose the appropriate e-learning media for a variety of learner needs and learning outcomes, and offers methods to integrate media into nursing courses.
#33*	Faculty Orientation: Bringing New Faculty Up to Speed Ann B. Schlumberger, EdD, RN Discusses the challenges and rewards linked to the integration of new faculty into the education environment. An overview of current orientation and mentoring strategies will provide a framework for addressing identified issues.
#34	What’s Nice to Teach vs. What Must be Taught! Sylvia Rayfield, MSN, RN “We never have time to teach all that we need to”, is heard around the nursing world. The reality is that we DO. Join in this informative session to find out how. We will discuss the nursing standards that must be taught in the classroom and clinical settings. Then using these standards as a framework to evaluate your course content, you can learn to differentiate what must be taught.
#35	Preparing Nursing Students to be Skillful Critical-Thinkers and Confident Test-Takers Carolyn S. Merriman, MS, APRN, FNP-BC Describes the “nuts and bolts” of teaching nursing students to integrate critical thinking with test-taking skills, bridging academia to clinical practice.
2:30	Refreshment Break
3:00	CONCURRENT SESSIONS #4
#41	Using the Media to Market Yourself and Your Programs Elizabeth C. Poster, PhD, RN, FAAN Provides resources and strategies to increase the national, state and local visibility of faculty and programs. Examines how to most widely and effectively disseminate your ideas, professional passion as well as work with both public and professional resources.
#42	Critical Thinking at the Bedside: Effects on Organizational Costs and Clinical Competency Christina Ryan-Ramey, MSN, RN Discusses how hospitals are using a customized web-based exam to assess the overall nursing skills of newly hired RN graduate nurses. Sharing the data from the exam with nursing programs encourages professional collaboration to effectively prepare new graduate nurses and to decrease the cost of retraining new hires.
#43*	Strategies to Expand Your Nursing Program June Larson, MS, RN Ann B. Schlumberger, EdD, RN The ongoing nursing shortage has led to voluntary and mandated nursing program expansions in an educational environment of limited resources. This presentation will discuss the impact of program expansion and will present successful models of expansion linked to partnerships and alternative models of curriculum delivery.
#44**	Advanced Test Construction: Learn to Write the Right Questions Quickly and Easily Sylvia Rayfield, MSN, RN It’s not how great the items are, it’s what they’re written on that counts! Join in this dynamic session where we will discuss how to differentiate between types of testing items: knowledge base, medical model, and clinical reasoning. Then utilize an abbreviated list of nursing standards as a frame work for writing test items and using “Bottom Line Questions”.
#45	Working with At-Risk Nursing Students: Use of Success Courses to Enhance Retention Carolyn S. Merriman, MS, APRN, FNP-BC Discusses two different models of success courses that can be used to promote academic mastery, improve graduation rates and increase successful entry into practice after graduation.
4:30	Conference Summary and Evaluation
4:45	Adjourn

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